
We have something to declare: We didn’t really look into the word ancient closely enough, until after we had written this week’s list. Ancient declares that it’s not only from the past, but indeed it’s also not in existence any longer. So, we took some creative liberties this time, by declaring that from today, this list has gone from ancient aliens to very old aliens. Hah! We managed to evade disaster again. Anyway, read on for this week’s list. (more…)
November 10, 2018 | Categories: Entertainment, Film, Gaming posts, Literature, Television, Top 10, Video Games | Tags: Alien Universe, Ancient Aliens TV Show, babylon 5, Doctor Who, Eldar, Engineers, first ones, Forerunners, Goa’uld, Halo, Lovecraft, Mass Effect, Mukokon, Necron, Oddworld, Old Ones, Precursors, Q, Q Continuum, Ridley Scott, shadows, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, The Doctor, Timelord, Top 10, Very Old Aliens, vorlons, Warhammer 40k, Yoda | 7 Comments

Last week I discussed the alien races of Babylon 5, similarities and differences and how we’re not all that great at coming up with wholly alien life forms. Everything we create has some irrevocable grounding in what we are and what we know, and while a lot of that has a solid basis in evolutionary biology we’re still missing a little imagination at times.
There were a few races I noticeably omitted in the last in this series that stalwart fans may have wondered about (I know there’s a few die-hards reading), The First Ones. Humans are not the first to set foot among the stars, far from it. The Centauri found us first, the Minbari are the most advanced of the spacefaring species, except for the handful who came before. Creatures of legend, actual legends given shape. (more…)
February 16, 2017 | Categories: Entertainment, Television | Tags: analysis, Angels, authority, B5ID, babylon 5, Demons, first ones, Future Humans, God, in depth, Kosh, Lorien, metaphor, parents, power, religious, Sci-Fi, shadows, Study, vorlons | 4 Comments